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Since James Cameron’s scientific fiction film Avatar broadcasted all over the world in 2009, it attracted a large number of audiences with its wonderful magic imagination, delicate picture and 3D technology, and achieved the highest global ticket amount of $2.7 billion. And such enthusiastic responses largely result from its deep and original thinking for ecological problems, and the art of creative expression. Along with the ecological problems become more and more serious, numerous films begin to be concerned about the ecological problems directly or indirectly, such as The Sea, 2012, AfterMath and so on, but no one can surpass Avatar. The creativity of this film is to project the human’s excessive exploration on the natural environment in a planet named Pandora. When facing rare and precious mineral in the Pandora, humans’ greed defeats their highly civilized spirit. The film enlightens us that humans are to be committed to pay some unimaginable cost for their crimes to the nature. In such a point of more and more contentious contradiction between man and nature, to abandon the anthropocentricity, and to establish ecological concept of harmonious development between the human and the nature, and to promote the “ecological culture” are in urgent need. This paper tries to analyze this film from the perspective of Eco-criticism and conducts its research respectively from the following three research points of ecological literature: criticism of anthropocentricity, criticism of the concept of conquering and controlling the nature, and criticism of Desire Dynamics Theory.
In the 1960s, with the ecological crisis becomes worse and worse, the trend of ecological awareness has greatly influenced human beings in the literature creation. Literature works which focus on ecology emerge soon. Ecological criticism, as a kind of ecological literature research, emerged in the 1990s in the United States, and then spread through many countries. In 1974, Joseph W. Meeker put forward “Literary ecology” (1974:3) and advocated that criticism should reveal the relationship between humans and other species, and should meticulously and sincerely explore the effect of literature brought to human behavior and natural environment (1974:4). Jonathan Bate was an English Professor who studied romantic literature from the perspective of ecological research. In 1991, Bate also used the word “ecocriticism” in his book and he called it “literary ecocriticism” (1991:11). In 2003, Glen A. Love pointed that Eco-criticism is based on worries about the reality of the ecological criticism, based on the impulse of eliminating the ecological criticism (2003:10). https://www.51lunwen.org/kaitibaogao/ He insisted that teachers, scholars and citizens everywhere in the earth should make some efforts for the real world (2003:7).
In China, Lu Shuyuan advocated that facing the serious ecological crisis, ecological criticism should always be a kind of criticism which has clear purpose and significance, with responsibility and morality; a kind of criticism should be consisted of historical and cultural concept, with realistic and critical spirit (2002:9). In 2006, Lu Shuyuan collected and edited the existed ecological criticism literature works into a book of more than one million words, named Nature and Culture: Ecological Criticism Academic Resource Database. This book provided a large number of resources for research and本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。